Improvement in medicated oils



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JULES H. NORMAND AND LEON DUFILHO, OF NATOHITOOHES, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED OILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 201,194, dated March12, 1878; application filed a September 6, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JULEs H. NORMAND and LEON DUFILHO, residents of thetown of Natchitoches, parish of Natchitochcs and State of Louisiana,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Medicinal Oil; andwe do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and correctdescription of the same.

This invention relates to that class of compounds used in the cure ofcuts, burns, bruises, wounds, &c.; and it consists in acompositionformed by mixing pure olive-oil with trifolium, arnica-flowers, andangelica-root.

The preparation of our oil consists in the maceration of about threeounces of trifolium, five ounces of arnica-flowers, and three ounces ofangelica-root in about three gallons of the very purest of quality ofolive-oil. This infusion is allowed to stand for an indefinite period oftime, the longer the better, as thereby the several ingredients willmore thoroughly unite.

Our preparation is applied by saturating a piece of linen therewith, andby bandaging the same over the cut, or sore, or whatever else it JULESH. NORMAND. LEON DUFILHO.

In presence of O. L. KocK, J. O. HUBBELL.

